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The episodes in this series feature original music by Andrew Huang, footage from James Weiss, and narration by Hank Green and Deboki Chakravarti. This series takes a relaxing dive into the unseen aspects of the world through microscopic footage.

Still image from: Journey to the Microcosmos: Meet the Microcosmos

Still image from: Journey to the Microcosmos: How Microscopic Hunters Get Their Lunch

Still image from: Journey to the Microcosmos: Stentors--Single-Celled Giants

Still image from: Journey to the Microcosmos: How Do Microorganisms Reproduce?

Still image from: Journey to the Microcosmos: Where Did Eukaryotic Cells Come From?

Still image from: Journey to the Microcosmos: Tardigrades--Chubby, Misunderstood, & Not Immortal

Still image from: Journey to the Microcosmos: How Do Protozoa Get Around?

Still image from: Journey to the Microcosmos: Diatoms--Tiny Factories You Can See From Space

Still image from: Journey to the Microcosmos: Mysterious Jiggly Crystals and Other Intracellular Structures

Still image from: Journey to the Microcosmos: How Do Colonies Help Microorganisms Survive?

Still image from: Journey to the Microcosmos: Death in the Microcosmos

Still image from: Journey to the Microcosmos: Euglenoids--Single-Celled Shapeshifters

Still image from: Journey to the Microcosmos: Hydra--Stretchy, Speedy, & Probably Immortal

Still image from: Journey to the Microcosmos: Relax and Enjoy the View

Still image from: Journey to the Microcosmos: Life Without Oxygen? Challenge Accepted

Still image from: Journey to the Microcosmos: Rotifers--Charmingly Bizarre & Often Ignored

Still image from: Journey to the Microcosmos: The Microscopic Circle of Life

Still image from: Journey to the Microcosmos: Amoebas--Occasional Brain-Eaters

Still image from: Journey to the Microcosmos: The Colors of the Microcosmos

Still image from: Journey to the Microcosmos: Eating, Hatching, and Crashing Into the Moon--More About Tardigrades

Still image from: Journey to the Microcosmos: Are Microbes Good or Bad for Humans?

Still image from: Journey to the Microcosmos: Paramecium--The White Rat of Ciliates

Still image from: Journey to the Microcosmos: Microorganisms Are Cleaning the Water You Drink

Still image from: Journey to the Microcosmos: What Microscope Do We Use?

Still image from: Journey to the Microcosmos: What Humans and Stentors Have in Common

Still image from: Journey to the Microcosmos: Gastrotrichs--Four Day Old Grandmothers

Still image from: Journey to the Microcosmos: We Recorded Some Strange Goop. What Is It?

Still image from: Journey to the Microcosmos: What If All the Microbes Disappeared?

Still image from: Journey to the Microcosmos: Desmids--The Symmetrical Algae That's Full of Crystals

Still image from: Journey to the Microcosmos: Microbes Don’t Actually Look Like Anything

Still image from: Journey to the Microcosmos: We Filmed Tardigrade Mating

Still image from: Journey to the Microcosmos: The Highs and Lows of Tardigrade Pregnancy

Still image from: Journey to the Microcosmos: Slime Molds--When Micro Becomes Macro

Still image from: Journey to the Microcosmos: How to Identify Microbes

Still image from: Journey to the Microcosmos: How Cyanobacteria Took Over the World

Still image from: Journey to the Microcosmos: Bacillaria--Distractingly Beautiful Crystal Colonies

Still image from: Journey to the Microcosmos: The Story of Christian Gottfried Ehrenberg

Still image from: Journey to the Microcosmos: How We Find Our Microbes

Still image from: Journey to the Microcosmos: The Secret Things Living in Your Aquarium

Still image from: Journey to the Microcosmos: Synura--Smelly, Flowery Confetti

Still image from: Journey to the Microcosmos: How to Survive the Microcosmos

Still image from: Journey to the Microcosmos: What Is the Point of Sex?

Still image from: Journey to the Microcosmos: What Are These Vorticella up to?

Still image from: Journey to the Microcosmos: Water Fleas: Look Weird, Adapt Weirder

Still image from: Journey to the Microcosmos: Making Decisions Without a Brain

Still image from: Journey to the Microcosmos: Peritrich Ciliates--Masters of Long-Range Snacking

Still image from: Journey to the Microcosmos: The Terrifying Viruses of the Microcosmos

Still image from: Journey to the Microcosmos: The Micro World Right Under Your Feet

Still image from: Journey to the Microcosmos: Testate Amoebas--Blobby, Modest Shell Dwellers

Still image from: Journey to the Microcosmos: Colorless Euglenoids--Structure and Function (and Food)

Still image from: Journey to the Microcosmos: The Complicated Legacy of Lynn Margulis

Still image from: Journey to the Microcosmos: The Microbe You Eat All the Time

Still image from: Journey to the Microcosmos: How to Name a Microbe

Still image from: Journey to the Microcosmos: Preserving the History of the Microcosmos With Prepared Slides

Still image from: Journey to the Microcosmos: Trying to Make Sense of This Overwhelming World

Still image from: Journey to the Microcosmos: We Upgraded Our Microscope!

Still image from: Journey to the Microcosmos: How Do Microorganisms Poop?

Still image from: Journey to the Microcosmos: Flatworms--Simple Wiggly Tubes

Still image from: Journey to the Microcosmos: Our Paramecia Are Infected

Still image from: Journey to the Microcosmos: Lacrymaria--Vicious Long-Necked Predators

Still image from: Journey to the Microcosmos: The Fungus That Traps and Kills Nematodes

Still image from: Journey to the Microcosmos: Ophyroglena: The Tricky Transforming Ciliate

Still image from: Journey to the Microcosmos: Can Microbes See Without Eyes?

Still image from: Journey to the Microcosmos: Do Microscopic Immortals Actually Exist?

Still image from: Journey to the Microcosmos: Water Is Thicker When You’re Smaller

Still image from: Journey to the Microcosmos: Didinium--The Paramecium Hunter

Still image from: Journey to the Microcosmos: This Ciliate Is About to Die

Still image from: Journey to the Microcosmos: Foraminifera--Hard on the Outside, Squishy on the Inside

Still image from: Journey to the Microcosmos: Why Do Bacteria Move Like Vibrating Chaos Snakes?

Still image from: Journey to the Microcosmos: The Algae That Saved an Astronaut's Life

Still image from: Journey to the Microcosmos: Moss & Lichen--Which One Is Actually a Plant?

Still image from: Journey to the Microcosmos: Suctorians--The Ugly Duckling of Ciliates

Still image from: Journey to the Microcosmos: Can Algae Fuel Our Cars?

Still image from: Journey to the Microcosmos: How Do Microorganisms Pee?

Still image from: Journey to the Microcosmos: Becoming Your Own Baby Through Conjugation

Still image from: Journey to the Microcosmos: Getting to Know Our Single-Celled Ancestors

Still image from: Journey to the Microcosmos: Your Screen Is Covered in Human Blood

Still image from: Journey to the Microcosmos: Heliozoa--Round, Sticky, and Covered in Spikes

Still image from: Journey to the Microcosmos: How Diatoms Build Their Beautiful Shells

Still image from: Journey to the Microcosmos: Leeuwenhoek--The First Master of Microscopes

Still image from: Journey to the Microcosmos: The Fantastic Feet of the Microcosmos

Still image from: Journey to the Microcosmos: The Chaotic Life of Seashore Ciliates

Still image from: Journey to the Microcosmos: We Found a Super Rare Microbe!

Still image from: Journey to the Microcosmos: Bursaria--Giant Gravity-Sensing Vacuums

Still image from: Journey to the Microcosmos: The Diversity of Shapes in the Microcosmos

Still image from: Journey to the Microcosmos: Looking at Tardigrade Sperm and Other Reproducing Swimmers

Still image from: Journey to the Microcosmos: Flinching Saves Lives in the Microcosmos

Still image from: Journey to the Microcosmos: Some Eggs Don't Need Sperm to Make Babies

Still image from: Journey to the Microcosmos: We Upgraded Our Microscope... Again!

Still image from: Journey to the Microcosmos: Unsolved Mysteries of the Microcosmos

Still image from: Journey to the Microcosmos: The Beautiful, Brutal Tentacles of Hydra

Still image from: Journey to the Microcosmos: We Dipped Our Lens in Oil to See More Detail

Still image from: Journey to the Microcosmos: The Secret Things Living In Your Drains

Still image from: Journey to the Microcosmos: Revealing the Hidden Colors of the Microcosmos

Still image from: Journey to the Microcosmos: These Algae Curl Up Into a Ball When They Get Stressed Out

Still image from: Journey to the Microcosmos: Where Is This Anemone Really From?

Still image from: Journey to the Microcosmos: The Gruesome Tale of the Hitchhiking Parasite

Still image from: Journey to the Microcosmos: The Spatula-Shaped Ciliate Family

Still image from: Journey to the Microcosmos: What Even Is a Species?

Still image from: Journey to the Microcosmos: Aeolosoma--Polka-Dotted Vacuum Worms

Still image from: Journey to the Microcosmos: Nematodes--The Worm That Sculpted the World

Still image from: Journey to the Microcosmos: The Tiny Worlds Inside of Single-Celled Organisms

Still image from: Journey to the Microcosmos: The Complicated Relationships of the Microcosmos

Still image from: Journey to the Microcosmos: Adventures in Being Eaten

Still image from: Journey to the Microcosmos: Creepy Crawly Close-Ups

Still image from: Journey to the Microcosmos: We Recorded Too Much Slow Motion Footage

Still image from: Journey to the Microcosmos: Looking for Answers in the Skull of a Zebrafish

Still image from: Journey to the Microcosmos: The Tiny Crustacean With the Oldest Penis

Still image from: Journey to the Microcosmos: Microbes in Slow Motion

Still image from: Journey to the Microcosmos: Copepods--The Diatom-Devouring King of Plankton

Still image from: Journey to the Microcosmos: Dileptus--The Toxic Micro Elephant With an Insatiable Appetite

Still image from: Journey to the Microcosmos: The Arachnid Whose Poop Is Making You Sneeze

Still image from: Journey to the Microcosmos: Tumbling Down Invisible Highways

Still image from: Journey to the Microcosmos: The Fish Sucking Lice That Aren’t Lice

Still image from: Journey to the Microcosmos: Journey Through the Body of a Rotifer

Still image from: Journey to the Microcosmos: Slime Tubes in Search of Sunlight

Still image from: Journey to the Microcosmos: The Purple Bacteria That Are Afraid of Oxygen

Still image from: Journey to the Microcosmos: Why Do Microbes Explode Under UV Light?

Still image from: Journey to the Microcosmos: What Is Mold and Why Does It Love Bread?

Still image from: Journey to the Microcosmos: The Dark History of Sea Monkeys

Still image from: Journey to the Microcosmos: Giant Microscopic Cannibals

Still image from: Journey to the Microcosmos: How Many Cells Are in a Microscopic Animal?

Still image from: Journey to the Microcosmos: The Remarkable Mystery of Land Plants

Still image from: Journey to the Microcosmos: A Microscopic Tour of Death

Still image from: Journey to the Microcosmos: There's More Than Coral at the Coral Farm

Still image from: Journey to the Microcosmos: We Finally Found the Elusive Bristle Worm!

Still image from: Journey to the Microcosmos: Putting Coral Under the Microscope

Still image from: Journey to the Microcosmos: How Brownian Motion Helped Prove the Existence of Atoms

Still image from: Journey to the Microcosmos: How to Not Kill an Extremely Rare Microbe

Still image from: Journey to the Microcosmos: Mouthless Parasites That Make Their Home in Worm Guts

Still image from: Journey to the Microcosmos: Can This Baby Rotifer Escape Before It’s Eaten Alive?

Still image from: Journey to the Microcosmos: The Moss Animals That Are Defined by Their Butts

Still image from: Journey to the Microcosmos: Getting to the Root of Nitrogen Fixation

Still image from: Journey to the Microcosmos: A Two-Headed Ciliate and Other Adorable, Dead, and Extinct Things

Still image from: Journey to the Microcosmos: The Aquatic Snails That Leave a Path of Destruction

Still image from: Journey to the Microcosmos: These Squishy Dots Move So Fast You Might Miss Them

Still image from: Journey to the Microcosmos: The Microscope Upgrades We've Made Along the Way

Still image from: Journey to the Microcosmos: Our Tardigrades Got Stuck in a German Post Office

Still image from: Journey to the Microcosmos: These Walking Ciliates Are Frustrating

Still image from: Journey to the Microcosmos: Water Mites--Sticky Dancers With Crystal Poop

Still image from: Journey to the Microcosmos: We Accidentally Grew Crystals

Still image from: Journey to the Microcosmos: Ghost Fleas--Tiny See Through Cyclopses

Still image from: Journey to the Microcosmos: Bacteria That Only Want to Head North

Still image from: Journey to the Microcosmos: An Hour of Our Uncut Microscopic Footage

Still image from: Journey to the Microcosmos: The Shared Doom of Microscopic Hitchhikers

Still image from: Journey to the Microcosmos: These Rotifers Glue Themselves Together

Still image from: Journey to the Microcosmos: Why Are These Single-Celled Organisms so Large?

Still image from: Journey to the Microcosmos: Sand Is Full of Life and Death

Still image from: Journey to the Microcosmos: The 18th Century Tardigrade Debate

Still image from: Journey to the Microcosmos: How We Got the DNA From This Extremely Rare Ciliate

Still image from: Journey to the Microcosmos: A Microscopic Tour Through a Norwegian Fjord

Still image from: Journey to the Microcosmos: The Illuminating Reason Perenema Curl Up Into a Ball

Still image from: Journey to the Microcosmos: The Many Ways Microbes Eat, Get Eaten, and Poop

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Still image from: Journey to the Microcosmos: Your Mouth Is a Cave For Microbes

Still image from: Journey to the Microcosmos: Tardigrades--The Ambassadors of the Microcosmos